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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ?

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. Organizational culture largely determines if teams and individuals embrace and sustain collective responsibility. Embrace objectivity. Proactively Experiment to Improve. Not improving fast enough. Limit Work-In-Progress.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Published date: 2008 (revised edition). Author: Brett Harned.

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Monte Carlo Simulation

Herding Cats

Monte Carlo simulation on projects examines all paths through the network of activities or all possible states of the project for the duration, cost, and risk that create impacts on duration and cost. Monte Carlo and Agile Development . Management: Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies. [2]